Middleware Job Trends in Manchester

Middleware
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Middleware skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 150 187
Rank change year-on-year -29 +37 -41
Permanent jobs citing Middleware 15 11 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.21% 0.46% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.94% 1.89% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 4 6 3
10th Percentile £68,125 £58,560 £42,850
25th Percentile £70,938 £64,621 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £66,367 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.01% +6.19% +5.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,716 £69,375
90th Percentile - £86,250 £72,750
North West median annual salary £73,500 £66,367 £62,888
% change year-on-year +10.75% +5.53% +5.65%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

Middleware falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 775 582 1,054
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 10.85% 24.34% 25.31%
Number of salaries quoted 618 346 615
10th Percentile £43,350 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £53,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £72,245
90th Percentile £96,250 £91,625 £80,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year - +14.04% -5.00%

Middleware
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Middleware relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Middleware job vacancy trend in Manchester

Middleware
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Middleware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Middleware

Middleware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (53.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 13 (86.67%) Azure
2 8 (53.33%) AWS
3 4 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 3 (20.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) DHCP
1 8 (53.33%) DNS
1 8 (53.33%) Firewall
1 8 (53.33%) TCP/IP
1 8 (53.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 14 (93.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (53.33%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Support Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Salesforce Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Senior
4 3 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Senior Salesforce Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Support Manager
6 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Lightning Web Components
1 4 (26.67%) REST
1 4 (26.67%) SOAP
1 4 (26.67%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Windows
1 8 (53.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (60.00%) Change Management
2 9 (60.00%) High Availability
2 9 (60.00%) System Testing
3 8 (53.33%) Business Continuity
3 8 (53.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (53.33%) Server Building
3 8 (53.33%) Server Management
3 8 (53.33%) Server Monitoring
4 6 (40.00%) Agile
5 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 5 (33.33%) DevOps
5 5 (33.33%) Mentoring
6 4 (26.67%) Data Modelling
6 4 (26.67%) Unit Testing
7 3 (20.00%) AI
7 3 (20.00%) Business Transformation
7 3 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
7 3 (20.00%) Release Management
7 3 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) PowerShell
1 9 (60.00%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) Apex Code
3 3 (20.00%) SOQL
3 3 (20.00%) SOSL
4 1 (6.67%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) Hyper-V
1 8 (53.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
1 8 (53.33%) VMware
2 4 (26.67%) Salesforce
3 2 (13.33%) YouTube
4 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.67%) Splunk